Finally, a place to buy software vulnerabilities

The Swiss are a crafty bunch. They project that outward innocent image of a country full of cheese and chocolate and watches and cute little knives, but underneath they are up to something. We all know that clever neutrality ploy that allows them to play nice with everyone, and make a ton of money behind the scenes. So it shouldn't be any surprise that when a startup appeared on the scene that allows people to sell vulnerabilities in software that the Swiss were behind it. WabiSabiLabi lets people sign up and sell the exploits they've found eBay style. The best part of the whole thing is that the site tries to play it off as helping make the world more secure. Which is an interesting stance to take considering it's basically people saying "I've found a way to hack your software, pay me and I'll tell you how. Or if you don't, I'll sell it to someone else and then everyone will know except you." Hm. Not suspicious at all.

As of right now there really isn't a whole lot of activity going on, with only 4 vulnerabilities up for grabs, and only two of them have been bid on. But then again sometimes evil things take a little while to catch on. Like identity theft? Remember back when that wasn't cool? Now it's everywhere, thank God. Hopefully blackmailing software companies becomes just as hip in the near future. Fingers crossed!